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POLICY PAPER: EU membership of the Western Balkan states in times of crisis: From a strategic choice to protracted inertia

November 24, 2020

Our associate research fellow Marko Stojić in his latest policy paper deals with the Western Balkans' European perspective and the COVID-19 crises' impact on the countries' journey towards EU membership.

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Info.cz: A thorny road to Europe. Northern Macedonia's bid for EU membership is hampered by another neighborhood dispute

November 17, 2020

Our researcher Jana Juzová recently published an article on the news portal Info.cz dealing with the European journey of Northern Macedonia and the problems that this country has faced in recent years. It focuses mainly on the complicated relationship between Northern Macedonia and neighboring Bulgaria.

BalkanInsight.com: US Elections splits Central Europe

November 03, 2020

Our Danielle Piatkiewicz for the Balkan Insight web commented on how the result of US elections will affect Central Europe politics.

iDnes.cz: Neverending story of Brexit. The time for concluding a deal is running out

October 22, 2020

The director of our Institute, Vladimir Bartovic, expressed his position on the current Brexit situation for the iDnes.cz and MF DNES servers yesterday. Above all, he commented on whether or not will the United Kingdom be able to conclude a trade deal with the EU by the end of this year.

Info.cz: The higher climate goal of the EU has approached, the Czech Republic will no longer block it

October 20, 2020

Our researcher Kateřina Davidová recently published an article on news portal Info.cz which deals with the topic of decreasing European emissions. The author responds to the unexpected turn of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in the issue of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and his support for the European goal.

POLICY PAPER: Identifying the EU’s weaknesses in foreign and defence policy: the struggle to become a more effective global actor

October 19, 2020

Adrian Blazquez's latest policy paper deals with the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). More precisely, he focuses on the aspects of unanimous and qualified majority voting, international security commitments, and common strategic culture of the EU.

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The European Green Way - the future of the Czech Republic?

October 13, 2020

Kateřina Davidová from EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy wrote a commentary "Green Deal and the Czech Republic" for the publication European Green Road - The Future of the Czech Republic?, published in collaboration with the Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies and the Institute for Christian Democratic politics (IKDP), which focuses on ideas for the Czech Republic on the way to its sustainable future.

Info.cz: There is going to be enough money for Czech Republic from EU budget. However, we still don´t know how to use them

October 12, 2020

Our research fellow Vít Havelka in his latest article published by the news portal Info.cz commented on the Czech approach to the recently agreed EU budget for years 2021-27 and the use of funds from a pandemic-response package.

Info.cz: The new Marshall Plan? The European Commission is trying to "kickstart" the economies of the Western Balkans

October 09, 2020

Our researcher Jana Juzová recently published an article on the news portal Info.cz dealing with the evaluation of developments in the countries applying for EU membership. In the text, the author summarizes the outputs that the European Commission came up with in its report and also comments on possible assistance in the form of the Economic and Investment Plan.

Info.cz: We ourselves must take over the responsibility for our future, Europe is outlining the path for us

September 23, 2020

Our researcher Kateřina Davidová recently published an article on news portal Info.cz which deals with the topic of decreasing of the European emissions. The author opens the topic of Czech sceptical approach towards the new climate plan which was published by the European Commission mid-September.